No explosives found at site of West Middlesex bridge

Associated Press

WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa.

A contractor hired by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation didn’t find any dynamite buried at the site of a viaduct to be rebuilt in western Pennsylvania.

PennDOT officials hired a crew to dig for the explosives after learning they might exist during at a public meeting last month about the project in West Middlesex.

An elderly man says his father, a contractor, found five cases of dynamite while demolishing a building in the 1930s to make way for the viaduct, which was built in 1941. Not knowing what to do with the material, the man told PennDOT officials his father buried the explosives in a cellar.

Crews found nothing Thursday. The $12.1 million bridge project begins in 2016.